Smart \Smart\, a. [Compar. Smarter; superl. Smartest.]

[OE. smerte. See Smart, v. i.]

1. Causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or taste.

How smart lash that speech doth give my conscience. --Shak.

2. Keen; severe; poignant; as, smart pain.

3. Vigorous; sharp; severe. ``Smart skirmishes, in which many fell.'' --Clarendon.

4. Accomplishing, or able to accomplish, results quickly; active; sharp; clever. [Colloq.]

5. Efficient; vigorous; brilliant. ``The stars shine smarter.'' --Dryden.

6. Marked by acuteness or shrewdness; quick in suggestion or reply; vivacious; witty; as, a smart reply; a smart saying.

Who, for the poor renown of being smart Would leave a sting within a brother's heart? --Young.

A sentence or two, . . . which I thought very smart. --Addison.

7. Pretentious; showy; spruce; as, a smart gown.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Smart \Smart\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Smarted; p. pr. & vb. n. Smarting.]

[OE. smarten, AS. smeortan; akin to D. smarten, smerten, G. schmerzen, OHG. smerzan, Dan. smerte, SW. sm["a]rta, D. smart, smert, a pain, G. schmerz, Ohg. smerzo, and probably to L. mordere to bite; cf. Gr. ????, ?????, terrible, fearful, Skr. m?d to rub, crush. Cf. Morsel.]

1. To feel a lively, pungent local pain; -- said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my finger smarts; these wounds smart. --Chaucer. --Shak.

2. To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil.

No creature smarts so little as a fool. --Pope.

He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it. --Prov. xi. 15.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Smart \Smart\, v. t. To cause a smart in. ``A goad that . . . smarts the flesh.'' --T. Adams.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Smart \Smart\, n. [OE. smerte. See Smart, v. i.]

1. Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles. ``In pain's smart.'' --Chaucer.

2. Severe, pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as, the smart of affliction.

To stand 'twixt us and our deserved smart. --Milton.

Counsel mitigates the greatest smart. --Spenser.

3. A fellow who affects smartness, briskness, and vivacity; a dandy. [Slang] --Fielding.

4. Smart money (see below). [Canf]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)